Forensic sciences
How Things Burn: Developing Realistic Models of How Materials Combust and Degrade in a Fire
Crime Scene Documentation: Weighing the Merits of Three-Dimensional Laser Scanning
Thermal and spectroscopic analysis of nitrated compounds and their break-down products using gas chromatography/vacuum UV spectroscopy (GC/VUV)
Analysis of electrostatic coupling throughout the laboratory evolution of a designed retroaldolase
Amino acid interactions that facilitate enzyme catalysis
An interlaboratory study evaluating the interpretation of forensic glass evidence using refractive index measurements and elemental composition
Standardizing ordinal subadult age indicators: Testing for observer agreement and consistency across modalities
Mitochondrial DNA Control Region Variation in Lebanon, Jordan, and Bahrain
Detecting Chemical Vapor Diffusion through Firefighter Turnout Gear
NIJ Announces $1.3M to Fund Research in Public Forensic Laboratories
On January 11, 2022, NIJ announced $1.3 million in funding to support 5 new projects under its Research and Evaluation for the Testing and Interpretation of Physical Evidence in Publicly Funded Forensic Laboratories (Public Labs R&E) program. Through its funding of forensic science grants, NIJ, a component of the Office of Justice Programs, continues to improve the examination and interpretation of physical evidence across the...
Quantification of Tool Markings
Improving methods for fingerprint development on hand-guns
Method Development for Objective Physical Matching: Meeting Daubert
Latent Print Detection by MacroRaman Imaging
National Firearms Examiner Academy Forensic Science Training
The Effects of Temperature on Blowfly Colonization of Decomposing Human Bodies
Development of blowflies on a body is a standard forensic measure of time since death, but temperature variations can alter that development and mislead investigators.